Fire Eaters

Author : David Almond
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444921083

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The Fire Eaters by David Almond Pdf

There he was, below the bridge, half-naked, eyes blazing. He had a pair of burning torches. He ran them back and forth across his skin. He sipped from a bottle, breathed across a torch, and fire and fumes leapt from his lips. The air was filled with the scent of paraffin. He breathed again, a great high spreading flag of fire. He glared. He roared like an animal. That summer, life had seemed perfect for Bobby Burns. But now it's autumn and the winds of change are blowing hard. Bobby's dad is mysteriously ill. His new school is a cold and cruel place. And worse: nuclear war may be about to start. But Bobby has a wonder-working friend called Ailsa Spink. And he's found the fire-eater, a devil called McNulty. What can they do together on Bobby's beach? Is it possible to work miracles? Will they be able to transform the world? A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.

Author : Lorman A. Ratner,Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252092213

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Fanatics and Fire-eaters by Lorman A. Ratner,Dwight L. Teeter Jr. Pdf

In the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, newspapers in the North and South presented the arguments for and against slavery, debated the right to secede, and in general denounced opposing viewpoints with imagination and vigor. At the same time, new technologies like railroads and the telegraph lent the debates an immediacy that both enflamed emotions and brought the slavery issue into every home. Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. look at the power of America's fast-growing media to influence perception and the course of events prior to the Civil War. Drawing on newspaper accounts from across the United States, the authors look at how the media covered—and the public reacted to—major events like the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and the election of 1860. They find not only North-South disputes about the institution of slavery but differing visions of the republic itself—and which region was the true heir to the legacy of the American Revolution.

Author : Jose Hernandez Diaz
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781680032093

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The Fire Eater by Jose Hernandez Diaz Pdf

Surreal, playful, and always poignant, the prose poems in Jose Hernandez Diaz’s masterful debut chapbook introduce us to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt, all of whom explore their inner selves in Hernandez Diaz’s startling and spare style. With nods to Russell Edson and the surrealists, Hernandez Diaz explores the ordinary and the not-so-ordinary occurrences of life, set against the backdrop of the moon, and the poet’s native Los Angeles. The TRP Chapbook Series

Author : Mwelwa C. Musambachime
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781524594411

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Fire-Eaters by Mwelwa C. Musambachime Pdf

As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, despite the many years of direct contact with European traders and the influx of European goods, most African societies still produced their own iron and its products, or obtained them from neighbouring communities through local trade. The quality of iron products was such that, despite competition from European imports, local iron production survived into the early twentieth century in some parts of the continent. The production process covered prospecting, mining, smelting, and forging. Different types of ore were available all over the continent and were extracted by shallow or alluvial mining. A variety of skills were required for building furnaces, producing charcoal, smelting, and forging iron into goods. Iron production was generally not an enclave activity but a process that fulfilled the totality of socio-economic needs. It also fit the gender division of labour within communities.

Author : Seraiah the Scribe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Mississippi
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU56732228

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Chronicles of the Fire-eaters of the Tribe of Mississippi by Seraiah the Scribe Pdf

Author : Robert Barnwell Rhett
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 157003348X

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A Fire-eater Remembers by Robert Barnwell Rhett Pdf

Some people called Robert Barnwell Rhett the Father of Secession. This book illuminates Rhett's role in secession's time and passage. It tells of Rhett's interest in secession doctrine as early as 1828 and his outspoken support of disunion fully a quarter-century before 1861.

Author : Robert Minhinnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029292359

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Watching the Fire Eater? by Robert Minhinnick Pdf

A collection of essays covering a variety of subjects and locations. It includes a vivid series of attempts to strip away the exhausted mythologies of the writer's own country. Reprint; first published in 1992.

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570034397

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Rhett by William C. Davis Pdf

Rhett first raised the possibility of secession in 1826, well before Calhoun adopted the notion, and would ever after hold fast to his one great idea. In this examination of Rhett's personal and political endeavors, Davis draws upon many newly found sources to reveal the extremism that would make and mar Rhett's adult life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Chris McIlwain
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588384126

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The South's Forgotten Fire-Eater by Chris McIlwain Pdf

The story of the American Civil War is typically told with particular interest in the national players behind the war: Davis, Lincoln, Lee, Grant, and their peers. However, the truth is that countless Americans on both sides of the war worked in their own communities to sway public perception of abolition, secession, and government intervention. In north Alabama, David Hubbard was an ardent and influential voice for leaving the Union, spreading his increasingly radical view of states' rights and the need to rebel against what he viewed an overreaching federal government. You have likely never heard of Hubbard, the grandson of a Revolutionary War soldier who fought under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. He was much more than that stereotype of antebellum Alabama politicians, being an early speculator in lands coerced from Native Americans; a lawyer and cotton planter; a populist; an influential member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama; and a key promoter of the very first railroad built west of the Allegheny mountains. Alabama's Forgotten Fire Eater is the story of Hubbard's radicalization, describing his rise to becoming the most influential and prominent secessionist in north Alabama. Despite growing historical interest in the "fire eaters" who whipped the South into a frenzy, there has been little mention until now of Hubbard's integral involvement in Alabama's relationship with the Confederacy. Now historian Chris McIlwain offers Hubbard's story as a cautionary tale of radical politics and its consequences.

Author : Gwendolyn MacEwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036630346

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The Fire-eaters by Gwendolyn MacEwen Pdf

Author : Eric H. Walther
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807141518

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The Fire-Eaters by Eric H. Walther Pdf

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307816436

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Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton Pdf

From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.

Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Gold Eagle
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373610939

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The Fire Eaters by Don Pendleton Pdf

Author : Harry Houdini
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781602060777

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Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini Pdf

Magicians debunking charlatans and revealing secrets of the trade: it's not something that Penn and Teller or James "The Amazing" Randi invented. The legendary Harry Houdini was doing the same thing a century ago, to popular acclaim. In this 1920 book, the master showman-and surprisingly entertaining writer-uncovers the mysteries behind such extraordinary feats as fire-eating, sword-swallowing, snake-charmers, and strong men. More a simple expose of stage trickery, though, this is a brisk history of such oddities throughout history and around the world, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, from the culture of the Native Americans to that of Japan. This is a fascinating work of the strange and seemingly inexplicable made plain and understandable. Hungarian-American magician and professional skeptic EHRICH WEISS (1874-1926)-aka Harry Houdini, "Handcuff King and Jail Breaker"-also wrote Magical Rope Ties and Escapes (1920) and A Magician Among the Spirits (1924).

Author : Eric H. Walther
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807830277

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William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War by Eric H. Walther Pdf

"By the 1850s Yancey was a key leader in the movement for disunion, proclaiming himself the defender and embodiment of the South. He defied Northern Democrats at their national nominating convention in 1860, rending the party and setting the stage for secession after the election of Abraham Lincoln. Selected to introduce Jefferson Davis in Montgomery as the president-elect of the Confederacy, Yancey went on to serve as the Confederacy's first diplomatic commissioner to England and France and then as a senator from Alabama before his death in 1863, just short of his forty-ninth birthday.".